"I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways."
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"I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness."
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"Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be."
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"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
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"Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid force there that's not going to be pushed around, that sometimes helps."
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"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too."
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"Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?"
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"I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings."
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"For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."
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"Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?"
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"Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it."
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"What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."
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"Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'"
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"I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose."
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"The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion."
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"The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are."
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"The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them."
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"Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement."
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"It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life."
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